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01 Apr 2015 5:27:29am

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An example: you say "you are also completely mistaken with regard to the effects of what you term "televised atrocities".

and also "if all that is involved in the "teaching of ethics" is the propagation of discourse, then I would suggest that what is being taught IS NOT ethics."

Neither statement with justification.

You say "Any "teaching of morality" involves dogma"- so being taught that women being more sinful than men because of Eve, or other nonsense by untrained, untracked misguided preachers and lay-workers seems to be an acceptable position to you? Students should be subject to a barrage of these non fact-bearing statements?

"These theories are far more 'dated' than what Kohlberg asstered, ". Whereas the theory of relativity is verified pretty much every day by scientists, where is the verification of Kohlberg's assertions? Our knowledge of child development has increased greatly even since the 80s.